ARK BENCH
*Please note that this installation is now upkept by the goodwill of the public! I have tended to it for a couple years and have since moved to London, UK. Please get in touch if you would like to take on the project! In the meantime please be respectful and carry on the creativity.
This may look like just a big burly bench but at heart it is also a creative pit-stop; it can be a place for contemplation, a source of inspiration, a platform for expression, and a hub of intersections and connections for all passersby.
With a container on either arm this bench invites you to take a seat and create or explore. Open up the doors. You can use your own supplies or find some in the bench and leave art or take art. Then we share and publish what we find on social media and here at random, to widen and amplify the conversation.
So, whether you need to unearth your deep dark confessions or doodle out some silly ideas you’ve collected, whether you are coming or going, old or young, into economics or quilting or oceans or aardvarks, the Ark can be a hub for your expression. Doodles, illustrations, comics, poems, stories, wishes, love letters, or however it comes out, we want it to come out!
Expression can be the thread that connects and enhances our community. And like Noah, we are driven to uphold and celebrate all parts of life: every idea, every person that makes up a community. Whatever way your voice finds expression it has a place here, and we want to hear what you have to say !
Find us on instagram or facebook and use #arkbench to add to the online conversation.
commissioned by
the Public Art Advisory Commission of Lake Country
Located in Jack Seaton Park, Lake Country, Canada; follow the trail to the right of the ball diamond.
Art in the Ark
Building the Ark
The Ark Bench was installed in Jack Seaton Park in September-October 2018 by Blaine, Jody, Rio, and Mike. Thank you! The Ark Bench was designed, built, and carved in 2017 by Jody.